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What happens when the quasar remnants reach Earth in 3 million years?
According to this article (A quasar Milky Way six million years ago?), during:
(during) a quasar stage in its evolution (6 million years ago) ... the Milky Way’s central black hole swallowed a huge ...
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How bright would Sagittarius A* be from Earth if it became an Active Galactic Nucleus?
Essentially I'd like to know how bright our central black hole could appear from earth in relation to full moon brightness. Assuming maximum energy output (like when it's gobbling up an entire ...
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What resolution is needed to see a quasar through the galactic center?
The center of the galaxy is densely packed with stars and obscured by a whole lot of dust between us and it. For those reasons, groups that study the motion of stars around the super-massive black-...
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What would be the outcome for life in our galaxy if the merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda creates a Quasar?
If predictions are correct, the Milky Way and Andromeda are set to collide in around 4 billion years. If, when this occurs, a Quasar is formed by matter being accreted to the common galactic center (...
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